Burning Man's Green Complexion

A week ago, the renowned Burning Man festival raged in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. More than 50,000 people from all over the world gathered as a community and built a city for a week. The prevailing spirit of the event is self-reliance, civic responsibility, creativity and a purposeful absence of commerce. The very premise of a temporary city that ‘leaves no trace’ is environmentally sustainable. The event has become a laboratory and a platform for sustainability. “Burning Man models how we will manage our future, a future in which resources are scarce and people have to come together to find solutions. We haven’t issued any green manifesto, but the Burning Man is increasingly attached to sustainability,” explains Marion Goodell, Director of Business and Communications. Four years ago, Larry Harvey, a co-founder of Burning Man, wanted to see the event tie into what wa...